Attachment Template Format Issue

[Admin_Agrotec]

There seem to be an issue with the margins on the PDF generator.

Attachment Template → The template file used to format the email attachment is in Google Docs

PROBLEM: When the file is made the margins (mostly top/bottom) are not respected.

This is the bottom of the first page and the top of the second page.

[1minManager]

Yes thats a thing Not much you can do about that other than try to make it fit on one page and or use page breaks

[Admin_Agrotec]

This is obviously a BUG. I wonder if the developers at Appsheet are aware of the issue?

[Marc_Dillon]

July 16, 2021

​​Ability to set custom margins for PDF email attachments.

When configuring an email task you can now choose to set custom page margins for PDF attachments. This capability is particularly useful for attachments that are more than one page.

Top and bottom margins set in the template only affect the top of the first page, and the bottom of the last page, not each page in the resulting PDF. Custom margins specified here will apply to every generated page.

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[Admin_Agrotec]

Hey @Marc_Dillon , the title should read; “Ability to set SOME margins for PDF attachments.”

I hope the developers at Appsheet can fix the BUG so all the margins can be set.

[Marc_Dillon]

This isn’t a bug, and they’ve already “fixed” it by providing the Custom Margins setting.

[Admin_Agrotec]

Custom margins setting for the top and bottom margin of a multipage document does not seem like a complete fix. Imagine if Google Docs only allowed you to set the top margin of the first page and the bottom margin of the last page.

[Marc_Dillon]

Admin_Agrotec:

Custom margins setting for the top and bottom margin of a multipage document does not seem like a complete fix.

It’s not. But that’s not the case. Not sure where your misunderstanding is coming from.

July 16, 2021

Custom margins specified here will apply to every generated page.

[Admin_Agrotec]

Those “Custom Margins” setting do not work. The top margin only sets the margin for the first page and the bottom margin only sets the margin for the last page. If the document is 3 pages and you set the top margin at 35 points and the bottom margin at 35 points:

• page 1 top margin will be 35 points
• page 1 bottom margin will be 18 points
• page 2 top margin will be 18 points
• page 2 bottom margin will be 18 points
• page 3 top margin will be 18 points
• page 3 bottom margin will be 35 points

[Marc_Dillon]

It works for me.

[Admin_Agrotec]

thank @Marc_Dillon it does not work for me. One thing I see you did different than I did is setting the margins in the Google Docs to zero (or marginally close to zero). I am going to change them and try it out. Appreciate the feedback…

[Steve]

Perhaps this feature isn’t fully rolled-out?

[Marc_Dillon]

From July 16th, man I’d hope so…